Political Science · Political Theory
Who considers that 'knowledge is power'?
AJacques Derrida
BMichel Foucault ✓ Correct
CKarl Marx
DJean-Francois Lyotard
Correct answer: (B) Michel Foucault — Michel Foucault linked knowledge with power, so the answer is Foucault.
Explanation
★Michel Foucault linked knowledge with power, so the answer is Foucault.
★He developed the idea of power and knowledge as inseparable.
★Every claim to knowledge, he argued, is bound up with relations of power.
★Those who control what counts as truth also control and discipline society.
★He showed this through studies of madness, the clinic, the prison and sexuality.
★Jacques Derrida is known instead for deconstruction of texts.
★Lyotard is known for incredulity toward meta-narratives.
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